Go to the hardware biggies and price materials to clean up and make the 2nd floor an art studio...... & a skylight is fairly simple to install .... your walls can be covered with paneling no need for drywall and all that finishing == just nail it to the studs --- bug spray is easy buy a one-gallon garden sprayer and DIY {rinse out and save -- chemicals &sprayer $45.00 and each use there after almost free} outlets are easy if you just take the time to learn how and you can DIY for way less than costs .... mo info @ XTX ,, e/m me ....
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.